Studying History Part-Time

[the_lazy_fox]

...was my plan, but it might be that our dear government has thwarted it. Due to their need to shrink their budget, they are going to raise college money for part-time students from €1200 to around €4000. That is *per year*. Since the part-time trajectory is 6 years, that means the whole study would cost €24,000. Plus, they want to

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[comradek]

Yeah. I have that problem with our provincial energy company that's like that. Their employees all get ridiculous benefits and wages, and spend a lot of time doing very little, their executives make way too much plus bonuses, and run up massive debts at the same time. Doing a shitty job and getting paid well for it. And then, because the company has been so badly run for so long, the consumer actually gets a bill in the mail not just for the electricity delivered, but also for "debt reduction", so in essence, the consumer is paying for the management's stupidity, and making power less and less affordable. And when it hits -40, it's hard not to use a lot of it. And you can't just buy power from someone else, because this is the government sanctioned company. It gets to run itself pretty much like a private company, but at the same time, has no need to worry about being competitive. It's ridiculous. Not quite education, but it takes the same sort of twisted backwards thinking.

[happybat]

Perhaps things are different where you are, but I have NO problem with Head Teachers being well paid. A Scottish Head Teacher is likely to be dead within two years of retirement, such are the stresses of the job. They also have the ability to make or break a school. Perhaps things are, as I said, different where you are but if spending that kind of money got me a good boss, I would take a pay CUT to make sure we got one.

[the_lazy_fox]

I didn't actually mean the Head Teacher. I really meant the Director (the Top Manager, basically). That's the guy that tells teachers what to do and gets paid a shitload of money for it, while the teachers get hardly anything and have a much heavier job indeed.